In August of 2012, David Cronenberg sat down for an interview with Brooke Tarnoff, a journalist at NextMovie.com. In the now infamous interview, Cronenberg stated his distaste for comic book movies, especially the ones by director Christopher Nolan. The interview is available for reading here on CBM.com, but earlier this week he felt the need to clarify his comments claiming that Brook Tarnoff (Whom he referred to as "the journalist woman) misquoted him and did not publish her own questions in the interview, which is false. A keen eye can hop over to NextMovie.com and read the questions right now. Furthermore, he claims that SHE was the one who brought up Christopher Nolan and Batman in the interview, which she did not do. HE was the one who came out and verbalized HIS distaste for Mr. Nolan and his movies. However, he has offered a clarification that he does not discriminate. He hates ALL comic book films saying,
"What I was saying was that a comic book movie is really a comic book movie. Comic books were -- especially those comic books which I was raised on (I loved Captain Marvel) -- created for adolescents and they have a core that is adolescent.To me, that limits the discourse of your movie if you're basing it accurately on that, and you cannot rise to the highest level of cinematic art. That's my take on it. I went on to say that, of course, technically they can be incredibly interesting, since there are very clever people making the movie and of course have a lot of money they are throwing at it. But creatively, artistically, they are incredibly limited. It got bent out of shape that I was dissing Christopher Nolan, which just wasn't the case."
No, you were dissing:
Tim Burton
Richard Donner
Joel Schumacher(We'll allow it)
Bryan Singer
Sam Raimi
Mathew Vaughn
Brad Bird
Jon Favreau
Kenneth Branaugh
Joe Johnston (I'll allow it)
Louis Leterrier
Joss Whedon
Shane Black
Martin Cambell
Zack Snyder
AND Christopher Nolan.
Much better. Why diss one director when you can diss, oh, about a dozen directors!! What's next? Is he going to come out and say that he hates anybody who has ever worked in escapist fiction? He has literally stated that he thinks that comic books are juvenile and childish and that anybody who watches and enjoys them is juvenile and childish. Wow. Did I mention that David Cronenberg directed A History of Violence, a critically-acclaimed movie that is, guess what, based on a comic book? No? BECAUSE I DON'T NEED TO!!! If you are reading this article, you are a comic book fan, or at least a comic book movie fan. Comic books are not juvenile. Just take a look at this photo advertising Scott Snyder's run on Batman and tell me if it is juvenile or childish:
Kid's stuff!!
Why would he say these things? Why would he slander the poor "journalist woman"? Why would he trash comic books and every director of comic book movies? Is he bitter? Maybe he likes the taste of his own toes, I don't know.